THE CHOPPING BLOCK – CHEF PROFILES

joseph Hahn

Favorite class to teach:
Pasta class

Training/education:
French Culinary Institute

Cooking since:
1999

Favorite childhood food experience:
Don Peppe restaurant Queens NYC

What made you want to become a chef?
Eating out in NYC

What is your signature dish?
Coconut Lime Crabcake

What are the 5 ingredients you can't live without?
Bacon, butter, heavy cream, truffle salt, eggs

What do you love about cooking?
Making other people happy

When you're creating a new recipe, what influences and inspires you?
Italian regional food

What advice would you give a new cook?
What you put in the pot is what you get out. Buy quality ingredents.

What are you doing when you're not cooking?
Taking care of my son and golfing

Describe your perfect evening.
Having someone else cook for me

If you had friends in from out of town, where would you take them to eat?
Mercat a la Planxa, North Pond, Spring, Avec, Publican

Where are you from?
NYC

What was your favorite vacation?
Italy

What are your hobbies?
Golfing

What is your favorite band?
Pearl Jam

What is your favorite sports team?
NY Giants

If you could have dinner with one person, who would it be?
Thomas Keller

What are your guilty pleasures?
Oysters

Who is your favorite celebrity chef?
Don't like celebrity chefs. Best chefs are not on tv

What 5 tools should every new cook have in the kitchen?
Microplane, good knives,stainless steel bowls, thermometer, silpat

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